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|accepted_name=Ficus citrifolia
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|place=8. 1768
|year=1768
}}
|common_names=Wild banyan tree
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ficus brevifolia
|authority=Nuttall
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|name=Ficus laevigata
|authority=Vahl
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|name=Ficus laevigata var. brevifolia
|authority=(Nuttall) D'Arcy
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ficus populifolia
|authority=Willdenow
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ficus populnea var. floridana
|authority=E. Warburg
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|name=Ficus populnea var. brevifolia
|authority=(Nuttall) E. Warburg
}}
|hierarchy=Moraceae;Ficus;Ficus citrifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Moraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ficus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ficus citrifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, evergreen, to 15 m. <b>Roots</b> adventitious, aerial, hanging. <b>Bark</b> brownish, smooth. <b>Branchlets</b> grayish, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 0.5-2 cm, glabrous; petiole (0.7-)1.5-6 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade ovate to elliptic or obovate, 3-14 × 1.5-8 cm, nearly leathery, base usually cordate or rounded to obtuse, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more than 10, not uniformly spaced. <b>Syconia</b> solitary or paired, pedunculate, yellow or red, spotted, globose to globose-ovoid, 8-18 mm diam., glabrous; peduncles to ca. 15 mm; subtending bracts 2, shortly connate, deltate or broadly rounded, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous or puberulent; ostiole subtended by 3 bracts, bracts ovate, ca. 1 × 2-3 mm, slightly umbonate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Tropical hammocks
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Ficus citrifolia</i> is the large and graceful banyan tree that is planted for shade around verandas.</p>
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name=Ficus citrifolia
|author=
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ficus brevifolia;Ficus laevigata;Ficus laevigata var. brevifolia;Ficus populifolia;Ficus populnea var. floridana;Ficus populnea var. brevifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Moraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Tropical hammocks
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication year=1768
|special status=
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|genus=Ficus
|species=Ficus citrifolia
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